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Mark Ruwedel – Exposed at Tate Modern
Mark Ruwedel talks about uncovering the traces of illegal migration in Mexico. Mark's work is on display in Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until 3 October 2010. Part of a series of Exposed interviews...
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Sandra Phillips on Celebrity – Exposed at Tate Modern
SFMOMA's Curator of Photography Sandra Phillips talks about the invention of the Paparazzi and how photography has lead to the rise and fall of the perfect celebrity. Sandra Phillips is Guest Curator of Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance...
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Gerald Scarfe on Rude Britannia | TateShots
TateShots' Comic Art trail continues with a look at satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. The Sunday Times regular was asked to curate the Political room in Rude Britannia, Tate Britain's extensive examination of the funny side of British...
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Sandra Phillips on Violence – Exposed at Tate Modern
SFMOMA's Curator of Photography Sandra Phillips gives a potted history of violent pictures from the battle of Gettysburg to now. Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for free on your mobile phone at Tate Modern:...
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Sandra Phillips on Invasive looking – Exposed at Tate Modern
SFMOMA's Curator of Photography Sandra Phillips explains the key themes of Exposed: Voyeurism and the Camera. On display at Tate Modern 28 May -- 3 October 2010 Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for free on your mobile...
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Sandra Phillips on Voyeurism and Desire – Exposed at Tate Modern
Pornography or Voyeurism? SFMOMA's Curator of Photography Sandra Phillips analyses what it means to look at pictures of sex Sandra Phillips is Guest Curator of Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until 3...
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Michael Rakowitz | TateShots
There aren't many artists who have been interviewed both by TateShots and Star Wars Insider Magazine, but that's what happened to Michael Rakowitz as he put the finishing touches to his Tate Modern exhibition. Star Wars fans, it seems,...
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GoldieLocks at Tate Britain – Bring the Noise!
Dubstep-Pop Princess GoldieLocks responds to Chris Ofilis work at the recent Bring the Noise event. Get the low down on her artistic process as she explores the many layers of Third Eye Vision, 1999. Tickets for the Chris Ofili...
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Michael Craig-Martin — 'I'm Interested in Language' | TateShots
Looking back over his long career, artist Michael Craig-Martin explains why the same ideas drive him today as when he first started out. In the early 1970s Michael Craig-Martin created his famous sculpture An Oak Tree. The work consists...
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Fiona Rae – 'I Never Think of Painting as Old Fashioned' | TateShots
Fiona Rae talks about her painting techniques and tools in her Hackney London studio as she put the finishing touches to works for her new exhibition at the Timothy Taylor Gallery. The artist talks about her enduring love for paint. Her...
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Santiago Sierra | TateShots
Whether casting sculptures from human excrement or paying addict prostitutes to have a line tattooed on their backs, Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is a provocateur whose art raise headlines. We filmed his latest performance piece at...
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Peter Doig | TateShots
Peter Doig's retrospective at Tate Britain was called 'the most enthralling show in town'. He took TateShots behind the scenes as he finalised the hang just before it opened, and showed us his private collection of photographs that...
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John Squire on Cy Twombly | TateShots
John Squire of The Stone Roses is both a musician and an artist. In this TateShots, he gets up close to Cy Twombly's epic canvases 'The Four Seasons' to explain why the American painter is one of his all-time heroes. A retrospective of...
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Lida Abdul – 'A Beautiful Encounter With Chance' | TateShots
Afghan artist Lida Abdul describes the chance encounter that became the basis for her elegiac film Dome. Abdul calls her pieces 'anti-monuments', and in Dome we see a small boy dancing alone in the centre of a bombed-out building in...
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Niki de Saint Phalle – A Retrospective | TateShots
Go on a tour of artist Niki de Saint Phalle's first major UK exhibition at Tate Liverpool. Beautiful, flamboyant, daring, provocative and fiercely independent, she emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the highly...
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Paul Nash – Totes Meer | TateShots
The hidden emotion behind a masterpiece of war. Paul Nash served as an official artist in the Second World War. His painting Totes Meer, German for 'dead sea', was inspired by a graveyard for wrecked aircraft at Cowley in Oxfordshire....
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Tania Bruguera – Tatlin's Whisper #5 | TateShots
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera talks about her latest performance work, Tatlin's Whisper #5, and explains why she's not interested in presenting images that can be viewed at a safe distance, but instead wants people to personally experience...
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Juan Muñoz | TateShots
Tate Modern presented the first major retrospective of his work in the UK. Curator Sheena Wagstaff offers an overview of the exhibition. Muñoz described himself as a storyteller, and often arranged his figures and objects in carefully...
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Gavin Bryars | TateShots
Composer Gavin Bryars introduces 'A Man in a Room, Gambling', his musical collaboration with the artist Juan Muñoz. The project mixes Bryars' score with the recorded voice of the artist as he reads texts on strategies for manipulating...
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Harrison and Wood – Studio Visit | TateShots
Bristol-based duo Paul Harrison and John Wood could be described as an art-world equivalent to Laurel and Hardy. In this film the artists invite TateShots to meet them at their studio. Their videos, showing their dead-pan antics as they...
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Jeremy Deller at the Turner Prize Retrospective 1984–2006 | TateShots
At the Turner Prize retrospective, Jeremy Deller talks about the two works that helped him win the Turner Prize in 2004. A wall drawing called The History of the World, a sort of mad-professor's mind-map of the history of Britain through...
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Grenville Davey at the Turner Prize Retrospective 1984–2006 | TateShots
Grenville Davey was considered the outsider when he won the £20,000 Turner Prize back in 1992, beating Alison Wilding, Damien Hirst, and David Tremlett. Fifteen years on, we filmed Davey as he installed his sculptures for the Turner...
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Mario Ybarra Jr. | TateShots
We filmed artist Mario Ybarra Jr as he launched a one-day barber's competition at Sweeney Tate. In amongst the galleries at Tate Modern you might come across a barbershop, complete with barber's chairs, checkerboard floor and striped red...
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Fiona Banner – Fighter Planes and Christmas Trees | TateShots
Every year Tate Britain commissions a contemporary artist to design its Christmas Tree. For 2007, Fiona Banner decorated the tree with 123 handmade kit models of all the world's fighter planes currently in service, anywhere in the world....